Isis Books Received
31 July - 2 September 2008
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Allen, Barry. Artifice and Design: Art and Technology in Human Experience. ix + 213 pp., illus., index. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2008. $35 (cloth). ISBN: 9780801446825.
Andriopoloulos, Stefan. Possessed: Hypnotic Crimes, Corporate Fiction, and the Invention of Cinema. viii + 208 pp., illus., bibl., index. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008. $35.00 (cloth). ISBN: 978022602549.
Ash, Mitchell G. (Editor). Mensch, Tier und Zoo: Der Tiergarten Schönbrunn im internationalen Vergleich vom 18. Jahrhundert bis heute. Foreword by Dagmar Schratter. 372 pp.,figs., indexes. Vienna: Böhlau, 2008. €35 (paper). ISBN: 9783205776147.
Asselbergs, Florine. Conquered Conquistadors: The Lienzo de Quauahquechollan: A Nahua Vision of the Conquest of Guatemala. xv + 372 pp., illus., app(s), index. Boulder, CO: University Press of Colorado, 2004. $45.00 (paper). ISBN: 9780870818998.
Balk, Antti P. Saints and Sinners: An Account of Western Civilization. 798 pp., bibl., index. Helsinki: Thelema Publications, 2008. $40 (cloth). ISBN: 9789525700008.
Beer, Daniel. Renovating Russia: The Human Sciences and the Fate of Liberal Modernity. ix + 229 pp., bibl., index. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2008. $45 (cloth). ISBN: 9780801446276.
Belli, Angela (Editor). Bodies and Barriers: Dramas of Dis-ease. (Literature and Medicine, 13.) xxi + 302 pp. Kent, OH: Kent State University Press, 2008. $29.95 (paper). ISBN: 9780873389228.
Hamerow, Theodore S. Why We Watched: Europe, America, and the Holocaust. xxi + 520 pp., illus., bibl., index. New York: W. W. Norton, 2008. $35 (cloth). ISBN: 9780393064629.
Bijstervald, Karin. Mechanical Sound: Technology, Culture, and Public Problems of Noise in the Twentieth Century. (Inside Technology.) xii + 350 pp., illus., bibl., index. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2008. $32 (cloth). ISBN: 9780262026390.
Brock, William H. William Crookes (1832-1919) and the Commercialization of Science. (Science, Technology and Culture, 1700-1945.) xxvii + 556 pp., illus., apps., bibl., index. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2008. $124.95 (cloth). ISBN: 9780754663225.
Burkhardt, Frederick (Editor). Origins: Selected Letters of Charles Darwin, 1822-1859. Foreword by Stephen Jay Gould. xxviii + 253 pp., illus., bibl., index. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008. $28 (cloth). ISBN: 9780521898621.
Burkhardt, Frederick, Samantha Evans and Alison Pearn (Editors). Evolution: Selected Letters of Charles Darwin, 1860-1870. Foreword by Sir David Attenborough. xxii + 308 pp., index. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008. $28 (cloth). ISBN: 9780521874120.
Casey, Robert. The Model T: A Centennial History. xviii + 148 pp., illus., table, index. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008. $24.95 (cloth). ISBN: 9780801888502.
Ciardi, Marco. Esplorazioni e Viaggi Scientifici nel Settecento. 458 pp. indexes. Milan: Biblioteca Universale Rizzoli, 2008. €12.00 (paper). ISBN: 9788817023344.
Clark, Constance Areson. God--or Gorilla: Images of Evolution in the Jazz Age. (Medicine, Science, and Religion in Historical Context.) xvi + 289 pp., illus., index. Baltimore, MD: John's Hopkins University Press, 2008. $35 (cloth). ISBN: 9780801888250.
Clark, Linda L. Women and Achievement in Nineteenth-Century Europe. (New Approaches to European History, 41.) ix + 300 pp., illus., bibl., index. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008. $80 (cloth). ISBN: 9780521650984.
Cohen, Martin. Philosophical Tales: Being an Alternative History Revealing the Characters, the Plots, and the Hidden Scenes that Make up the True Story of Philosophy. xvi + 282 pp., illus., index. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing, 2008. ISBN: 9781405140362.
Comacchio, Cynthia, Janet Golden and George Weisz. Healing the World's Children: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Child Health in the Twentieth Century. (McGill-Queen's/Associated Medical Services Studies in the History of Medicine, Health, and Society, 31.) xv + 307 pp., illus., index. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2008. $32.95 (paper). ISBN: 9780773533998.
Cottebrune, Anne. Der planbare Mensch: Die Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft und die menschliche Vererbungswissenschaft, 1920-1970. (Studien zur Geschichte der Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft, 2.) 298 pp., apps., bibl., indexes. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2008. €44 (paper). ISBN: 9783515090995.
Craik, Alex D. D. Mr. Hopkins' Men: Cambridge Reform and British Mathematics in the 19th Century. xiv + 405 pp., illus., table, apps., bibl., indexes. New York: Springer, 2007.$49.95 (paper). ISBN: 9781848001329.
Davidson, Jane P. A History of Paleontology Illustration. (Life of the Past.) xiii + 217 pp., illus., bibl., index. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2008. $39.95 (cloth). ISBN: 9780253351753.
de Bont, Raf. Darwin’s kleinkinderen: De evolutietheorie in België 1865-1945. 523 pp., illus., bibl., index. Nijmegen: Uitgeverij Vantilt, 2008. €34.90 (paper). ISBN: 9789077503751.
de Pablos, Ana Romero, and María Jesús Santesmases (Editors). Cien Años De Política Científica en España. 415 pp., illus., tables, bibls., index. Bilbao: Fundación BBVA, 2008. €24 (paper). ISBN: 9788496515628.
Dudley, Will. Understanding German Idealism. x + 214 pp., illus., table, bibl., index. Stocksfield: Acumen Publishing Limited, 2008. $27.95 (paper). ISBN: 9871844650965.
Faasse, Patricia E. In Splendid Isolation: A History of the Willie Commelin Scholten Phytopathology Laboratory, 1894-1992. (History of Science and Scholarship in the Netherlands, 11.) vi + 296 pp. app., bibl., index. Amsterdam: Aksant Academic Publishers, 2008. €40 (cloth). ISBN: 9789069845418.
Fortun, Mike. Promising Genomics: Iceland and deCODE Genetics in a World of Speculation. ix + 330 pp., illus., bibl., index. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2008. $24.95 (paper). ISBN: 9780520247512.
Froese, Paul. The Plot to Kill God: Findings from the Soviet Experiment in Secularization. xiii + 248 pp., illus., tables, index. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2008. $55 (cloth). ISBN: 9780520255289.
Graham, Loren, and Irina Dezhina. Science in the New Russia: Crisis, Aid, Reform. xiii + 193 pp., tables, index. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2008. $22.95 (cloth). ISBN: 9780253219886.
Gregory, Eric. Politics & the Order of Love: An Augustinian Ethic of Democratic Citizenship. xvi + 417 pp., bibl., index. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008. $45.00 (cloth). ISBN: 9780226307510.
Haeckel, Ernst. Gott-Natur (Theophysis): Kommentierter Nachdruck. Edited by Olaf Breidbach and Uwe Hoßfeld. (Wissenschaftskultur um 1900, 4.) 107 pp., tables, appendix. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2008. $16 (paper). ISBN: 9783515091633.
Hallyn, Fernand. Gemma Frisius, arpenteur de la terre et du ciel. (Les Géographies du Monde, 8.) 237 pp., illus., bibl., index. Paris: Honoré Champion, 2008. €49 (cloth). ISBN: 9782745317018.
Hannaway, Caroline (Editor). Biomedicine in the Twentieth Century: Practices, Policies, and Politics. (Biomedical and Health Research, 72.) x + 377 pp., illus., tables, index. Amsterdam: IOS Press, 2008. $182 (cloth). ISBN: 9781586038328.
Harding, Sandra. Sciences from Below: Feminisms, Postcolonialities, and Modernities. 283 pp., bibl., index. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2008. $22.95 (paper). ISBN: 9780822342823.
Harper, Kristine C. Weather by the Numbers: The Genesis of Modern Meteorology. ix + 328 pp., illus., index. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press, 2008. $40 (cloth). ISBN: 9780262083782.
Haywood, Sacha. The Laws of Evolution and Derived Lawlike Principles. xx + 492 pp., tables, bibl., index. Oxford: Hagenia Ltd., 2007. £69.95 (cloth). ISBN: 9780955740404.
Hodges, Sarah. Contraception, Colonialism and Commerce: Birth Control in south India, 1920-1940. xii + 170 pp., bibl., index. Hampshire: Ashgate, 2008. $99.95 (cloth). ISBN: 9780754638094.
Jackson, Noel. Science and Sensation in Romantic Poetry. (Cambridge Studies in Romanticism, 73.) xiv + 288 pp., illus., bibl., index. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008. $95 (cloth). ISBN: 9780521869379.
Janiak, Andrew. Newton as Philosopher. xii + 196 pp., bibl., index. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008. $90 (cloth). ISBN: 9780521862868.
Joyce, Kelly A. Magnetic Appeal: MRI and the Myth of Transparency. viii + 198 pp., illus., app., bibl., index. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2008. $21.95 (paper). ISBN: 9780801474385.
Kargon, Robert H. and Arthur P. Molella. Invented Edens: Techno-Cities of the Twentieth Century. (Lemelson Center Studies in Invention and Innovation.) viii + 190 pp., figs., index. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2008. $24.95 (cloth). ISBN: 9780262113205.
Krueger, Gretchen. Hope and Suffering: Children, Cancer, and the Paradox of Experimental Medicine. x + 216 pp., illus., index. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008. $35 (cloth). ISBN: 9780801888311.
Leu, Urs B., Raffael Keller, and Sandra Weidmann. Conrad Gessner's Private Library. (History of Science and Medicine Library, 5.) xii + 310 pp., illus., indexes. Leiden: Brill, 2008. $127 (cloth). ISBN: 9789004167230.
Marcum, James A. Thomas Kuhn's Revolution. (Continuum Studies in American Philosophy.) ix + 182 pp., bibl., index. New York: Continuum, 2005. $156 (cloth). ISBN: 978082648591X.
Larson, Peter and Kenneth Carpenter (Editors). Tyrannosaurus Rex: The Tyrant King. xvi + 435 pp., illus., tables, index, CD ROM. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2008. $49.95 (cloth). ISBN: 9780253350879.
Linhard, Frank. Newtons spirits und der Leibnizsche Raum. (Studien und Materialien Zur Geschichte der Philosophie, 77.) viii + 303 pp., tables, bibl., index. Zurich: Georg Olms Verlag, 2008. €58 (paper). ISBN: 9783487136844.
Mattern, Susan P. Galen and the Rhetoric of Healing. x + 279 pp., apps., bibl., index. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008. $55 (cloth). ISBN: 9780801888359.
Mauch, Chris, and Thomas Zeller (Editors). Rivers in History: Perspectives on Waterways in Europe and North America. x + 299 pp., illus., index. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2008. $60.00 (paper). ISBN: 9780822959885.
Mazzotti, Massimo (Editor). Knowledge as Social Order: Rethinking the Sociology of Barry Barnes. 184 pp., illus., index. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2008. $99.95 (cloth). ISBN: 9780754648635.
McClellan, James E. III (Editor). The Applied-Science Problem. (Based on papers presented at a workshop, Stevens Institute of Technology, May 6-8, 2005, Hoboken, New Jersey.) 221 pp., illus. Jersey City, NJ: Jensen/Daniels Publishers, 2008. $18.95 (paper). ISBN: 9781893032330.
McNeeley, Ian F. and Lisa Wolverton. Reinventing Knowledge: From Alexandria to the Internet. xxii + 318 pp., illus., index. New York: W. W. Norton, 2008. $25.95 (cloth). ISBN: 97803930656060.
Nestle, Marion. Pet Food Politics. 219 pp., illus., tables, index. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2008. $18.95 (cloth). ISBN: 9780520257818.
Nicolson, Roderick I., and Angela J. Fawcett. Dyslexia, Learning, and the Brain. xx + 283 pp., illus., bibl., indexes. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2008. $38 (cloth). ISBN: 9780262140997.
Nowotny, Helga. Insatiable Curiosity: Innovation in a Fragile Future. Translated by Mitch Cohen. (Inside Technology.) 179 pp. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2008. $30 (cloth). ISBN: 9780262141031.
O'Connell, Caitlin. The Elephant's Secret Sense: The Hidden Life of the Wild Herds of Africa. ix +240 pp., illus., index. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008. $15 (paper). ISBN: 9780226616746.
Ohanian, Hans C. Einstein's Mistakes: The Human Failings of Genius. xix + 394 pp., illus., bibl., index. New York: W. W. Norton, 2008. $24.95 (paper). ISBN: 9780393062939.
Reiss, Benjamin. Theaters of Madness: Insane Asylums and Nineteenth-Century American Culture. xi + 237 pp., illus., index. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008. $50 (cloth). ISBN: 9780226709639.
Rotman, Brian. Becoming Beside Ourselves. The Alphabet, Ghosts, and Distributed Human Being. xxxiv + 177 pp., index. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2008. $21.95 (paper). ISBN: 9780822342007.
Ruisinger, Marion Maria. Patientenwege: Die Konsiliarkorrespondenz Lorenz Heisters (1683-1758) in der Trew-Sammlung Erlangen. (Medizin, Gesellschaft und Geschichte, 28.) 308 pp., illus., tables, bibl., indexes. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2008. €43 (paper). ISBN: 9783515088060.
Ruston, Sharon (Editor). Literature and Science. (Essays and Studies 2008.) xi + 176 pp., illus., index. Rochester, NY: D. S. Brewer, 2008. $60 (cloth). ISBN: 9781843841784.
Saunders, Barbara (Editor). The Debate About Colour Naming in 19th Century German Philology. 199 pp., bibl. Leuven: Leuven University Press, 2007. $34.95 (paper). ISBN: 9789058676009.
Schiffer, Michael Brian. Power Struggles: Scientific Authority and the Creation of Practical Electricity before Edison. xii+ 440 pp., illus., biblio., index. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2008. $38 (cloth). ISBN: 9780262195829.
Simon, Josep and Néstor Herran with Tayra Lanuza-Navarro, Pedro Ruiz-Castell and Ximo Guillem-Llobat (Editors). Beyond Borders: Fresh Perspectives in History of Science. vii + 377 pp., bibl., index. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2008. ISBN: 9781847184832.
Solomon, Susan Gross, Lion Murard, and Patric Zylberman (Editors). Shifting Boundaries of Public Health: Europe in the Twentieth Century. (Rochester Studies in Medical History.) viii + 338 pp., illus., bibl., index. Rochester: University of Rochester Press, 2008. $90 (cloth). ISBN: 9781580462839
Speight, Allen. The Philosophy of Hegel. (Continental European Philosophy, 10.) viii + 166 pp., bibl., index. Montreal, Quebec: McGill-Queens University Press, 2008. $27.95 (paper). ISBN: 9780773534087.
Spix, Boris (Editor). Das Denkanatsburch der Philosophischen Fakultät der Universität Greifswald 1456-1662. Foreword by Georg Thümmel. Translated by Georg Thümmel. (Beiträge zur Geschichte der Universität Griefswald, 9.) 418 pp., illus., app., index. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2008. € 50.00 (cloth). ISBN: 9783515090148.
Thompson, Damian. Counterknowledge: How we Surrendered to Conspiracy Theories, Quack Medicine, Bogus Science, and Fake History. ix + 162 pp. New York: W. W. Norton, 2008. $21.95 (cloth). ISBN: 9780393067699.
van Delft, Dirk. Freezing Physics: Heike Kamerlingh Onnes and the Quest for Cold. (History of Science and Scholarship in the Netherlands, 10.) vi + 664 pp., illus., bibl., indexes. Amsterdam: Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2008. $78 (cloth). ISBN: 9789069845197.
Waitz, Theodor. Anthropologie der Naturvölker. Volumes 1-6. Hildesheim: Georg Olms Verlag, 2007. € 888, 00 (cloth). ISBN: 9783487133379.
Whitmarsh, Ian. Biomedical Ambiguity: Race, Asthma, and the Contested Meaning of Genetic Research in the Caribbean. viii + 225 pp., bibl., index. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2008. $21.95 (paper). ISBN: 9780801474415.
